Wine and WoW

The installation of Kubuntu on my second drive was simple . All my hardware was recognized and after tweaking some settings I have a fully functional system. An ongoing issue I have with Kubuntu is my printer. I have an HP Photosmart c4180 and it is not listed in the long list of hp printers available. HP's website is of no help " If what you were looking for is not listed, then it is not available for downloading from the web in this language." Thank you HP. I have run the printer in the past with the generic hplip driver and the performance is scream inducing. This is one of the areas where open source software is frustrating. For whatever reason HP chooses not to release drivers or open the code for this printer. For the most part HP is very good about making it's hardware compatible and releasing linux drivers. Why they haven't or won't for this printer is annoying.
1 point for keeping a Windows partition.

Installed wine per instructions at winehq. Installation and configuration of wine is straight forward especially with synaptic package manager. After installing wine I went to install the game that is the heart of this experiment, World of Warcraft. This install was not as smooth as I would have liked. I was not able to install off the cds and had to copy all the data off the discs to the hard drive and point the installer to the file. This was a minor inconvenience that led me to install krusader in order to quickly copy files. Once the files were on the hd the install was easy.

I was going to conclude this post with a report that I was not able to make WoW play on my system. In looking at the wine WoW page I see a new link with fixes for the issues I am having. I am going to see if this solves my problems or at least points out something I missed.